I have a good feeling tonight. In the playoffs the past 3 years the Wings generally respond when a team suckerpunches them (metaphorically of course), and with Abdelkader coming in I think the Wings will have the jump, added with their usual skill level, and maybe Abdelkader will inspire some of the other guys to equal Phoenix and neutralize the effect of their play.

The only thing that really, truly worries me is the penalty kill. I just hope that was a fluky bad night. They just have to avoid getting back on their heels (which Abdelkader should help with, along with Stuart on the powerplay) and they should be fine.

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anyone else notice nobody has won by more than 1 goal in all of the 7 playoff games so far? What's up with that? (If someone did please correct me, because I don't feel like looking)

I don't really think it's fair to the better teams that earn a bigger lead, then have to get ticky tack calls made on them to give other teams an opportunity. I hope that don't happen tonight.

U GUYS ARE FUKIN ANYOING IM GONNA COME DOWN THERE AND KILL ALL YALL THE ONLY THING THAT SAVED UR TEAM WAS OSGOOD AND OSSGOOD SUKS 2 JUST LIKE UR WHOLE FUKIN TEAM I HOPE U HEARD THIS AND THINK CAUSE ALL I GOT TO SAY TO U IS UR A BUNCH OF FUKIN IDIOTS BARONS A HOOSER CUSE HE WENT TO UR TEAM AND I HOPE U GUYS SHOULD SEND UR TEAM TO ANOTHER CITY CAUSE U GUYS ARE A BUNCH OF FUKIN WHINERS GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --- A canucks fan on stltoday.com

Wings game is on Center Ice as well since it is a Join In Progress with Versus.

If it is the Phoenix feed I will watch it until the Versus feed is available. If its FSD, I am saved from Versus.

Right now, our game's listed on Fox Detroit at 9 pm here in Texas. Versus seems to be picking up the feed at 10pm. OH, I hope we get the Deetroit feed. Please, PLEASE??!!

Here's some great news: just checked my Center Ice thru DISH - it appears that every game tonight will be aired on Center Ice, and even better - the Detroit feed will be in HD

Good point! I just checked Center Ice and it's on there. Both team's feeds are listed in wusspic and in HD. Yeehaaaa!

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

There are still a handful of teams with superior talent, that still get bogged down by penalties all because they had 2 calls which were perfectly legit, and then the other team gets 2 calls go their way which end up such weak, pathetic calls, just because the refs feel they owe em something, or because the box score shows uneven penalties. So why bother pretend to be objective then? The refs dig themselves a hole here doing it, too.

Teams that get more than a 1 goal lead in playoff games end up penalized for it. Sometimes they can still work through it, but I believe the refs give the weaker, or team getting beat, more opportunities. Pay attention to it.

I'm telling you...There isn't enough parity in the league yet to say all teams are close to equal. Do you really think Phx is on the level of Detroit? Or that Colorado is on the level of SJ? Or that LA is on the level of Vancouver? Or that Washington is as bad as Montreal? Come on.

It'll be interesting to see this chicago game tonight.

It doesn't benefit the league to have good teams get eliminated. Nobody wants to see LA vs Montreal in the finals.

U GUYS ARE FUKIN ANYOING IM GONNA COME DOWN THERE AND KILL ALL YALL THE ONLY THING THAT SAVED UR TEAM WAS OSGOOD AND OSSGOOD SUKS 2 JUST LIKE UR WHOLE FUKIN TEAM I HOPE U HEARD THIS AND THINK CAUSE ALL I GOT TO SAY TO U IS UR A BUNCH OF FUKIN IDIOTS BARONS A HOOSER CUSE HE WENT TO UR TEAM AND I HOPE U GUYS SHOULD SEND UR TEAM TO ANOTHER CITY CAUSE U GUYS ARE A BUNCH OF FUKIN WHINERS GO CANUCKS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --- A canucks fan on stltoday.com